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VIRGINIA BEACH EVENTS UNLIMITED INC

EIN 52-1372330 VIRGINIA BCH, VA

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Revenue 2025
$2,935,581
Expenses 2025
$2,720,229

Program services were 87.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
N52Z
Classification
1000
Street
265 KINGS GRANT RD STE 102

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

To celebrate the spirit of Virginia Beach through authentic experiences that foster joy, community, and connection for all.

  • Founded in 1973, The Virginia Beach Neptune Festival is an independent 501(c)(3) organization that plans and produces special events and activities to promote economic development, enhance our regional quality of life, and celebrate the greater Hampton Roads community. The Organization partners with area businesses, civic and non-profit organizations, military and veterans organizations, and individual volunteers to deliver more than forty events and activities each year. Most of our activities are free to the public while others require admission fees and include: 1. Sporting activities to promote healthy lifestyles. 2. Arts and Cultural events. 3. Events that celebrate the community. 4. Events that provide fundraising opportunities for more than 30 civic and non-profit organizations.

    Expenses $2,387,143 · Revenue $1,199,587

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Christopher Chope

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $161,000
    From this org
    $161,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $160,000
    Bonus
    $1,000
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $161,000

  • Nancy Creech

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Becky Sawyer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Regina Amick

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Graham Herbert

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeff Marks

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Martha McClees

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Raynor

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Patrick Shuler

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tonie Wallace Sadler

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alvin M Williams

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Justin Fulton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tom Barton III

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Adam Carroll

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • George MacDonald

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cheryl McLeskey

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • George Melnyk

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Paul Merritt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jim Spore

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian Carson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Steve Childs

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Angie Loew

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mark Johnson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Bibbs

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Taylor Franklin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $2,935,581
    Expenses
    $2,720,229
    Contributions
    $1,697,529
    Grants paid
    $37,425
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,916,268
    Expenses
    $2,760,479
    Contributions
    $1,782,144
    Grants paid
    $39,244
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,044,540
    Expenses
    $2,761,445
    Contributions
    $1,528,437
    Grants paid
    $45,049
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,013,122
    Expenses
    $2,823,999
    Contributions
    $1,507,431
    Grants paid
    $50,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,894,814
    Expenses
    $2,047,596
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,283,401

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $841,236
    Expenses
    $924,284
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,030,620

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,424,864
    Expenses
    $2,266,373
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,150,623

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,229,152
    Expenses
    $2,224,173
    Assets (EOY)
    $957,018

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,178,382
    Expenses
    $2,141,498
    Assets (EOY)
    $953,697

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,127,758
    Expenses
    $2,148,666
    Assets (EOY)
    $921,073

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,897,363
    Expenses
    $1,970,234
    Assets (EOY)
    $962,597

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

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Grants received

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Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.